When Geoff Dubiski graduated with an MS in labor relations, he found himself in a poor job market. He got hired at a staffing firm — and the rest is game-changing history.

Thirty years later, Dubiski serves as global talent acquisition lead of contingent workforce strategy and planning at Intuitive, a global technology leader in minimally invasive care and the pioneer of robotic-assisted surgery. Dubiski leads a program in its fifth year of a managed model. In the last five years, the program has tripled in spend managing over 2,800 contractors annually, and by 2024, the program aims to be in 12 additional countries, adding to their footprint established in the US, India and Mexico.

Key to sustained growth, Dubiski created high visibility with managers and Intuitive’s suppliers through direct contact, bi-annual MSP scorecards and on-site summits for access to functional leaders. A key achievement has been the creation and deployment of a global gateway for all non-employees to be screened and on/offboarded which is monitored by automation — a digital RPA assistant — giving speed, scale and accuracy to the risk team.

Looking forward, Dubiski is working on a Pathway to GED program for marginalized candidates – removing the requirement of a high school diploma or a GED for certain jobs, enabling talent to be hired after passing a skills assessment. “When I think about disenfranchised groups that are out there, many people are artificially restricted from jobs because of lack of a HS diploma or GED — and yet, they have skills that are valuable in the marketplace,” Dubiski shares. He aims to use this program to help Intuitive attract and retain talent amid the labor shortage in the industrial skill category.